Isaiah 44:12

The smith works with his tools, forming it, working over the coals. 1 He shapes it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. 1 He is hungry, and his strength wanes; he drinks no water and becomes faint. 1

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In The King James Version

The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

In Context

11Look, all his associates will be put to shame; the craftsmen are only men. 1 Let them take their stand together; they will cower and be put to shame. 1

13The carpenter measures the wood with a line, and marks it with a stylus. 1 He shapes it with his tools and marks it out with a compass. 1 He shapes it after the figure of a man, like an attractive human, so it may stay in a house. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 32:4He received the gold from them, fashioned it in a mold, and made it into a molded calf. Then the people said, “Israel, this is your god who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

Isaiah 40:19An idol! A craftsman casts it: The goldsmith overlays it with gold 1 and forges silver chains for it. 1

Isaiah 46:6People pour out gold from the bag and weigh silver on the scale. 1 They hire a metalsmith, and he makes it into a god; they bow down and worship it. 1

Habakkuk 2:13Is it not from Yahweh of hosts 2 that peoples labor for fire and all the other nations weary themselves for nothing? 2

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:10-21

The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 708.) 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12 The smith with the… Read the whole commentary →

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